Search Help

How does this work?
There are many ways to search the collections of the Freedom Archives. Below is a brief guide that will help you conduct effective searches. Note, anytime you search for anything in the Freedom Archives, the first results that appear will be our digitized items. Information for items that have yet to be scanned or yet to be digitized can still be viewed, but only by clicking on the show link that will display the hidden (non-digitized) items. If you are interested in accessing these non-digitized materials, please email info@freedomarchives.org.
Exploring the Collections without the Search Bar
Under the heading Browse By Collection, you’ll notice most of the Freedom Archives’ major collections. These collections have an image as well as a short description of what you’ll find in that collection. Click on that image to instantly explore that specific collection.
Basic Searching
You can always type what you’re looking for into the search bar. Certain searches may generate hundreds of results, so sometimes it will help to use quotation marks to help narrow down your results. For instance, searching for the phrase Black Liberation will generate all of our holdings that contain the words Black and Liberation, while searching for “Black Liberation” (in quotation marks) will only generate our records that have those two words next to each other.
Advanced Searching
The Freedom Archives search site also understands Boolean search logic. Click on this link for a brief tutorial on how to use Boolean search logic. Our search function also understands “fuzzy searches.” Fuzzy searches utilize the (*) and will find matches even when users misspell words or enter in only partial words for the search. For example, searching for liber* will produce results for liberation/liberate/liberates/etc.
Keyword Searches
You’ll notice that under the heading KEYWORDS, there are a number of words, phrases or names that describe content. Sometimes these are also called “tags.” Clicking on these words is essentially the same as conducting a basic search.

Search Results

We Do The Work: Not In Our Town We Do The Work: Not In Our Town
Call Number: V 094Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Documentary video on hate crimes in Billings, Montana. The story of a town uniting and helping a victimized family overcome. Good interviews with locals about why they don’t want hate in their communities.
KKK & Neo-Nazis: Armageddon Interviews (Crusaders for ignorance, bigotry and war) KKK & Neo-Nazis: Armageddon Interviews (Crusaders for ignorance, bigotry and war)
Call Number: KP 178Format: Cass A & BCollection: General materials
Expose includes compilation of interviews with the KKK in the early 80's. Explains newer white power groups and how they get their message across. Includes Florida Grand Wizard Tony Vistanzio and Tom Metzger who distributes a California show called Race & Reason. Also discusses new white power groups such as the Order and the Posse. These Neo-Nazi cults are obsessed with arming for the racial Armageddon. Jim Wickston of the Posse explains hatred of Jews, 'minorities,' and warns of the end of the nonwhite world. Similar groups such as the Aryan Warriors and Euro-American Brigade replace old Klan ideas and preach Christian identity and the overthrow of the "Zionist" run government and economy. To reinforce hatred towards Jews, the Christian identity is the claim that Aryans are a lost tribe of Israel and will survive Armageddon. Ends with Ronald Reagan's concurring.